January 29th, 2011: GERMANY - Ten people die and 22 are injured when a regional passenger train collides with a goods train at Hordorf in eastern Germany.

March 3rd, 2012: POLAND - Sixteen people are killed and around 60 injured when two trains crash head on as they travel on the same section of track at Szczekociny, some 200 kilometres (120 miles) south of Warsaw.

July 24th, 2013: SPAIN - A train bound from Madrid shoots off the tracks near Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain, killing 80 passengers and injuring 144.

November 14th, 2015: FRANCE - Eleven people are killed and 42 injured after a TGV train derails during a test run in northeast France. Accident investigators say the train was travelling too fast.

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February 9th, 2016: GERMANY - A collision between two regional trains leaves 12 dead and 85 injured in Bavaria in southern Germany.